For the first time in several books, Faye Kellerman returns to the New York Times bestselling Decker/Lazarus series back to the Los Angeles setting where the series started many years ago. A fast-paced mystery, that jockeys back and forth between the coastlines, it once again features Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, but also brings back many of the fan favorite characters from the series In this riveting drama, Decker, and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, return to an unsolved case from The Lost Boys, propelled into action when a body was found in the very woods where a developmentally disabled man went missing. The corpse was discovered just as he and Rina were boarding a plane to Israel. And that’s not the only crises that Decker has to deal hours before their holiday. Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of the Deckers foster son, Gabe, has escaped to Los Angeles with her two children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction and a messy divorce. Once there, instead of fading into the woodwork, she is found by ruthless men and beaten mercilessly trying to rescue her son, Sanjay, from the kidnappers. When she wakes up, barely conscious, she discovers that both of her children are gone. In desperation, she calls her son, Gabe, for help. With his mother on the verge of death, Gabe contacts his father, Christopher Donatti for help. But in bringing him into the fray, Gabe, Peter, and Rina know they have made a deal with the devil. Donatti, a former hit man from a known criminal family, now operates a multimillion-dollar brothel out of Nevada, is not only much closer to Los Angeles that Gabe is, but he owns a jet. Despite his mixed feelings about his ex-wife, he agrees to help. One of the first things he needs to figure out was who was behind the beating and the abduction. What did the men really want? Two desperate and disparate cases, two missing people and two teams working against the clock. And what when all the parts come together, the heart stopping drama can only lead to an explosive ending where no one remains unscathed. Seamlessly plotted with edge-of-the-seat suspense, it is detective fiction at its very finest.